MOSCOW (MRC) -- Fushun Petrochemical, PetroChina's subsidiary, is in plans to take a high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant off-stream for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company is likely to shut the plant in May 2017. The exact date and duration of the turnaround could be ascertained.
Located in Fushun, Liaoning province in China, the HDPE plant has a production capacity of 350,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, a subsidiary of PetroChina - Fushun Petrochemical - in the second half of 2012 started production of basic petrochemical products at its new plant in Fushun, Liaoning Province, China. The design capacity of the petrochemical complex is 300,000 tonnes per year of polypropylene (PP), 350,000 tonnes per year of high density polyethylene (HDPE) and 450,000 tonnes per year of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE).
PetroChina Company Limited is a Chinese oil company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), headquartered in Dongcheng District, Beijing. It is China's biggest oil producer and the most profitable company in Asia.
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